Báo cáo khoa học: "Open Access Hepatitis E virus infection is highly prevalent among pregnant women in Accra, Ghana" potx

... to determine the prevalence of HEV infection in pregnant women in Ghana, and demonstrates the high prevalence of and the considerable potential for the transmission of HEV infection in pregnant women ... women in Egypt and India, respectively [8,9]. In Ghana, studies of HEV seroprevalence in pregnant women have not been done previously. However, recently we obser...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... to determine the prevalence of HEV infection in pregnant women in Ghana, and demonstrates the high prevalence of and the considerable potential for the transmission of HEV infection in pregnant women ... t-test. We also obtained the frequency of seropositive and seron- egative women. In the bivariate analysis, we evaluated the relationship between the age and serum result...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... medical care is free and therefore women of low socio-economic status frequently attend. In the sec- ond study, in order to determine the true HEV prevalence in the area, samples were collected from ... sentinel cent- ers, including clinics, hospitals, and maternity centers. The difference may therefore be due to a difference in the population studied and the higher HEV prevalence...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... become very necessary for a screening exercise to determine the prevalence rate of HCV among diabetic patients so as to increase awareness of the populace and health practitioners on the dangers ... have diabetes before being infected with HCV might suffer from insulin resistance resulting in more adverse effects of diabetes than those with HCV infection alone. It was observed from this...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... become very necessary for a screening exercise to determine the prevalence rate of HCV among diabetic patients so as to increase awareness of the populace and health practitioners on the dangers ... have diabetes before being infected with HCV might suffer from insulin resistance resulting in more adverse effects of diabetes than those with HCV infection alone. It was observed from this...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... accumulated specifically in regions encoding the core/surface protein interface, as revealed in a 3D-modeled protein complex. We identified a novel RNA splicing event (deleting nucleotides 2986-202) ... proposed intron sequences may be a distinctive property of the clade members. To explore the proposed intron sequence in more detail, we com- pared a consensus polymerase sequence from t...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... topic area, developed in the form of systematic overview (narrative review) of the literature but specifically excluding a systematic review, to determine a frame of reference; 2. Outline what is ... Second, we recom- mend that a scoping study team be assembled whose members provide the methodological and context expertise needed for decisions regarding breadth and comprehensiveness. When...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... pieces of the mechanism of HCV cell entry have been identified in recent years. However, it is unclear how these pieces fit together. The involvement of sev- eral proteins in HCV cell entry either ... have been proposed to exist: lipoprotein-free enveloped virus, lipoprotein-free non- enveloped virus, lipoprotein-associated enveloped virus and lipoprotein-associated nonenveloped viru...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... viral genomes also result in the existence of quasispecies in infected individ- uals that evolve during the course of infection depending on the host selective pressure [23]. The existence of HBV as ... polymerase in insect cells The reverse transcriptase domain of HBV polymerase has several conserved motifs, and the YMDD motif is involved in nucleotide binding in the catalytic...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... the HCV IRES is not accessi- ble to Dicer in a cellular context. Expression of Dicer does not alter HCV IRES-mediated translation In light of these findings, we reexamined the relationship between ... be related to a Dicer inhibitory effect of the HCV core protein [41]. A recent paper also showed that the HCV E2 enve- lope protein interacts with Ago2, the catalytic engine of the RNA-i...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:21